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Centre for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities
www.socialsciencesandhumanities.com
International Conference on Culture and Cultural policies
Vienna, Austria, Hotel Ambassador
24-25.04. 2014
Call for papers for panel: DANCE AND CULTURAL POLICY
In history, dance has contributed towards creating friendship and understanding. For example, in newly founded communities of British settlers in Australia dancing helped newcomers to interact with locals and establish friendly relations.
Some form of dance exists in social life since early days. For example, ballet as a formalized form of dance exists since 15th century Italy, and from Italy it spread to France and then other countries. At first, ballet was intertwined with opera, but theatrical ballet quickly found its place as an independent form of art. On the other hand, wider population developed traditional folk dances, which today form part of national cultures. Importance of dance is also seen in the fact imperial powers largely imposed theirs dancing traditions over countries they controlled.
With the arrival of modernity, traditional and indigenous dances in many cases remained without appropriate attention, and dance as such remained outside of interest of wider public. This practice started to change during 1970s and 1980s with BBC championing increase in attention dance received due to its rich dance programme.
However, even if dance became subject of interest, countries still remained uninterested in dance in cultural policies and promotion. This is changing too. For example, in 2012, Australian government published a Dance plan and in 2013 dance became part of Australia’s national cultural policy. The European Union also opened possibilities for funding programmes in improving the status of dance and working conditions for dancers under its Culture programme.
Many countries are, increasingly, including dance as part of their tourist promotions where dance is presented as a part of national tradition (traditional dances), but also contemporary dances where countries are shown as dancing nations that follow international trends…
Papers are invited (but not limited to) for the following topics:
Dance and cultural policy – importance and perspectives
Place of dance in national cultural policies
Dance and cultural imperialism
Dance during the Colonial period
Indigenous dance
Folk dance
Dance and identity
Dance and theatres
We are inviting papers from all fields of social sciences and humanities. Historical perspectives are particularly welcome.
Paper proposals should be sent to [log in to unmask] by 10th March 2014. Information about the International Conference on Culture and Cultural policies (fees, deadlines, other panels) is available at this link: http://socialsciencesandhumanities.com/upcoming-conferences-call-for-papers/international-conference-on-culture-and-cultural-policies/index.html
The Centre has established a peer review journal entitled Journal of Culture and Religion, as well as a Working Paper Series in Religion and Culture. Conference papers will be considered. Information about publication possibilities is available at our website.